Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the President learned that-although war had not been declared-Bolivian soldiers had captured Paraguayan Fort Boqueron, he cried from a balcony of the presidential palace, "in taking the fort our soldiers gave a splendid example of Bolivian patriotism. Viva the army; viva the commander of our forces in the Chaco; viva Bolivia...
...Paraguay contains the best pasture land in the world. You could grow anything there-lemons, cotton, corn, oats, everything. We'd have done great things there if it hadn't been for the War. That put a stop to everything. The outfit I was working for sold out, but I kept 325,000 acres for myself. It may come in useful someday...
...During the week Her Majesty the Queen and Empress Mary unveiled a war memorial, spoke over the radio for the first time in her life. Complete speech: "To the glory of God and in honor of these brave men I unveil this memorial on behalf of .those for whom they died...
Britannia's new out-and-out-editor, Walter Crawfurd-Price was a famed British War-correspondent, and later Foreign Editor of the Sunday Times...
...freely rumored that Yen and his Shansi were at best holding aloof and at worst were likely to attack Nanking. Last week, however, the Marshal pompously approached "Southern Capital" upon his private train, accompanied by wife and retinue. At the station stood slender, waspish President Chiang Kaishek, and strapping War Minister Feng Yu-hsiang. As Yen joined Chiang and Feng, press photographers snapped "China's Big Three...